Eritrean refugees outside of apartment that was set on fire early yesterday morning. Graffiti reads: “leave the neighborhood.” (Photo: ActiveStills)
Following recent mob violence against African migrants in Tel Aviv, yesterday morning arsonists attacked Eritrean refugees in their Jerusalem apartment. Haaretz reported that ten of the refugees were trapped inside of the building during the fire, and four sustained injuries from smoke and burns.
The assailants also left a graffiti message to the residents: “leave the neighborhood.”
heartbreaking
Graffiti reads: “leave the neighborhood.”
in Hebrew
which is the holy language of the Jews
These Eritrean refugees are Jews, n’est-ce-pas?
No, they aren’t Jewish . They are refugees from one of the most brutal regimes on the planet. Jews once were refugees from one of the most brutal regimes on the planet but they don’t remember that stuff since it was pre 1948 and is not covered by Zionist history which only works pre AD 70 and post 1948.
what does the anti-discrimination league’s abraham foxman have to say about these kkk-like acts of israeli jews? next what, a star of david burning in front of the residences of african refugees? and has the naacp &/or urban league weighed-in?
Yourtruly,
“what does the anti-discrimination league’s abraham foxman have to say about these kkk-like acts of israeli jews?”
This article is unclear and slightly obfuscating. Are these the actions of white(ish) Israeli Jews against Black Jews? Or the actions of Israeli Jews against non-Jewish Africans they let into the country for some reason?
If these are refugees, I suspect they are Jewish, or Israel wouldn’t have let them in. The headline should say so because Eritrean is meaningless in and of itself. In Tel Aviv the Blacks were another nationality but still Jewish.
The headline above should make the lede clear to an American audience: Jerusalem Arsonists Threaten Black Jews to Remove Them.
The sign ‘leave the neighborhood’ pales beside trying to burn them down because they’re Black, even though presumably Jewish, in the world’s safety garden for persecuted Jews.
That’s the real story here, and the lede, if the Africans are Jewish…which is why I asked it above.
And it should therefore be a haunting issue to older American Jews who still hump the idea that it was they who brought Blacks in this country to full citizenship, even though Ella Baker had more to do with it than anyone when she started in 1920 and trained everyone significant in the Civil Rights Movement through the middle 1960s.
No, MRW, they’re not Jewish – nor are the Africans who’ve been the target of protests and attacks in Tel Aviv. As a matter of fact, an Ethiopian Jew attacked “by mistake”, actually got an apology from the thugs who did it.
Israel calls them “infiltrators”, and they come across the border from Sinai after a gruelling journey from their countries of origin. Israel generally refuses even to consider their applications for asylum, and if the applications are considered, they are always rejected (with the exception of 1 case). Were they Jews they would be granted automatic citizenship and would suffer other, less blatant and brutal kinds of discrimination. These people are guilty of the double “crime” of being both non-Jewish and black.
Thanks for the clarification, Shmuel. I read that the Tel Aviv attacked Blacks were North African Jews, not Bedouin, but from other countries. Either way, I think that distinction needs to be made in US reports here because (1) we Americans are too ignorant and impassive to know the differences, and (2) the situation is too incendiary not to be 100% clear about it.
“what does the anti-discrimination league’s abraham foxman have to say about these kkk-like acts of israeli jews?”
He’s in favor of some discrimination and is on record saying that Jewish people are not required to act rationally (because of the holocaust). He’d probably be all for it, like he was all for the denial of the Muslim’s rights at the “ground zero mosque.”
Some of the most racist people I’ve met have been Jewish with a very strong Ashkenazic ethnic identity. It boggles the mind how a Jewish person can be racist if one knows basic 20th century history, which of course they do. Even worse, they will say it goes both ways in that African Americans are particularly anti-Semtic, which is of course a lie. I’ve never experienced anti-Semitism from a black person; however I wouldn’t blame them in the future for being anti-Semitic after all the things Jews say about them that I hear on a regular basis.
Jews are just as racist as anyone else, and always have been. I too have heard American Jews spout ugly, disparaging comments about blacks in the United States. I’ve heard them refer to black folk as “animals”. Is this all Jews, no, anymore than all non-Jews are racist. The important point here, though, is that too many Jews believe their own propaganda about their religion and their culture. Because SOME Jews were involved in the civil rights movement, it therefore implies that ALL Jews believe in equal justice for all people. Not true as we can see from events now in Israel.
Frederic Nietzsche’s book title explains it well “Human, all too human”.